Otherwise, how else does one explain that asking a black person to produce a photo ID is tantamount to arresting them for walking on the sidewalk? Remember, the proposition is that this only effects blacks and that poor white or Hispanic people will be unaffected. Expect the same immoral, blithering idiots that support Hamas to claim that the Wisconsin voter ID law is racist.

JWH

Hmph. As long as voters are made aware of the ID requirements AND a valid identification can be acquired without a fee, then I don’t see a constitutional fault with a voter ID law as long as it is applied in a neutral manner.

jim_m

The good news is that 2 Christian aid workers, who have become horribly ill working amongst the needy in Africa, are being brought home to the US for treatment. The bad news is that THEY HAVE EBOLA.

Now I will admit that we can almost certainly do a better job of treating them here. But given that there is no cure, or efficacious treatment( so treating them is really an exercise in postponing their deaths), and that this outbreak is with the most deadly strain known, is it really wise to bring them back?

As a health care worker this gives me pause. From a public health standpoint I think this is completely insane. There is no benefit in bringing them back that can be honestly argued. There is only risk. If you could legitimately claim that there is a benefit to bringing them back and that there is a greater likelihood of a cure then I could understand the position even though I believe the dangers still outweigh the benefits.

Not all of Africa is so backward that modern healthcare has failed to reach it or cannot be sent there. Not to mention the fact that anything we send there could benefit others there and that it is impractical to send all ebola victims here.

North America has benefited from having an ocean standing between it and infectious disease. We shouldn’t be bringing incurable disease deliberately to our shores and circumventing that protection.

LiberalNightmare

It seems harsh, especially since they were volunteering, but its probably a bad idea to bring them back.

So it looks like the Israelis have violated the latest humanitarian cease fire. It seems that several Israeli soldiers cooked up a scheme to kill themselves, then force hamas to take one soldier as a hostage.

On the traffic sign, why both cows and rocks. Would some drivers be cautious if they thought a cow would plummet to the road any moment, but ignore the danger of falling rocks? Are other drivers suitably cautious when they know rocks might fall on the road, but would ignore warnings of hundreds of pounds of cows falling on them? Are cows and rocks the only things higher up on the mountain?

Ronald Reagan famously said “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” The corollary is that any government that is big enough to have resources to develop a special sign to warn of falling rocks and cows is big enough to be trimmed back.

jim_m

Obviously, the rocks are not a problem as they cannot reach the roadway. The real danger is the cows.

This is more evidence that vegetarianism is a dangerous lifestyle. Protect innocent lives, eat more beef!

Funny. We have Bruce and Chico blaming the Israelis for the situation in Gaza and denying that Hamas is at fault in any way. Yet we have the Arab media slamming Hamas for hiding behind women and children and causing their deaths and ripping Hamas leadership for hiding out in Qatar and living in luxury while they force their people to live in poverty and ceaseless violence.

Seems that even the muslim community is less antisemitic than Chico and Bruce and their lefty friends here in the US.

Mjolnir

I think the problem is more when Joe does the nasty dance. I’d think that would disturb anybody.

In 2012, there were 19 reports to the Burlington Police Department of a person carrying a gun that turned out to be a toy gun. In 2013, there were 26.

“The idea was, if the problem continues, it’s gonna be a matter of time until we actually end up with a confrontation with somebody that has a gun, that’s maybe not real. We can’t make those kind of decisions that fast,”

Or in other words: The police are too freaking stupid and incapable of using proper judgement that they are bound to blow away you 6 year old son for playing in the street with a toy gun. As the police chief says, “It’s a matter of time”.

I think it’s time to start replacing the police if they are that dangerous.

ljcarolyne

The tables will turn with a vengeance on this evil perverted Regime, just wait.
I can’t wait to see it, oh happy day.